Meeting_Body
REVISED
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
JULY 18, 2019
Subject
SUBJECT: STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT
Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE State and Federal Legislative Report.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
Executive Management Committee
Remarks Prepared by Raffi Haig Hamparian
Government Relations Senior Director, Federal Affairs
Chair Butts and members of the Executive Management Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on a number of federal matters of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on July 2, 2019 and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on July 18, 2019. Status of relevant pending legislation is monitored on the Metro Government Relations Legislative Matrix, which is updated monthly.
Reauthorization/Trump Infrastructure Plan
The prospect of reaching an agreement on an infrastructure plan between Congress and the White House has diminished greatly. The Chair of the House Transportation Committee, Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) commented in late June that they "were making one more run at the White House" to come up with an infrastructure package. It is also possible that the U.S. Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee will mark-up a bill to reauthorize surface transportation - a separate proposal from the previously mentioned infrastructure package. The current authorization bill - the FAST Act - expires at the end of September 2020.
Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2020
The U.S. House of Representatives has moved to pass their Fiscal Year 2020 Transportation-HUD Appropriations Bill while the U.S. Senate has not approved a bill at the Committee level as of yet. The U.S. Senate may begin work on appropriation bills in July before leaving Washington for all of August for their summer recess.
The spending measure passed by the House provides $86.6 billion for the U.S. Department of Transportation and its programs and projec...
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